Press Releases & Updates 2004

At 7.30 a.m. Jane Smith (50) from Granton-on-Spey, David Mackenzie (59) from Tillicoultry, Eric Wallace (68) from Helensburgh and Monique D’Hooghe (35), from the Netherlands, lay down at the gateway, locked together with plastic tubes. It was 9.25 a.m. before a specially trained MoD team was able to cut them loose and disruption to base traffic was considerable. The four were arrested and charged with a breach of the peace. They were released from custody early in the afternoon after giving an undertaking to appear at the local court tomorrow morning.

The blockade is part of the Non-Stop Nuke-Stop campaign which has caused frequent, regular and unannounced disruptions to the Clyde Trident bases.

Jane Smith said: "It’s not me who is breaching the peace, its what lies behind the gate we blockaded this morning. Trident is a horrifying weapon of mass destruction and I cannot sit back and pretend that the activity at Faslane is normal, lawful or decent.

In Helensburgh District Court Zoe Weir of Faslane Peace Camp was found guilty of a breach of the peace for taking part in a "die-in" at Faslane on Hiroshima Day (Aug 6th) last year. She was fined £120 with a 30 hrs Supervised Attendance Order on default of payment. Ere Itkonen from Finland had sentence deferred for painting the fence at Faslane last year during the Trident Ploughshares camp.

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